ClayMation Evaluation

 

Claymation is a form of animation in which the animator makes clay figure to construct a film.One of the first Claymation was called 'Morph' by 'Aardman'. Morph was a character that was created to entertain children with small clips of him doing silly things. Claymation is a simple form of stop motion where you simply move the clay figure slowly and bit by bit to while taking pictures of each simple movement. By the end of it the pictures would be pushed together to make the illusion that the clay figure is moving. Claymation is very similar to pixilation animation , the zoeltrope and cut out animation. As all these forms of animations are simply made and all give the illusion of moving images.

Aardman was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. The company makes the majority of different types of animations aimed at the younger generations.Animation has always been a good form of entertainment for families and young children. But animation is very time consuming. Films like 'Wallace and Gromit and the Ware rabbit' took 5 years to create because for every single movement has to be captured.

In our claymation we went for a simplistic look . We used two claymation character and made the working out at the gym by lifting weight. We used istopmotion and captured every movement to make it seem they were moving. I liked the way our work turned out as it completed out target to make is strong in narrative with the simplistic look.
Things we could have improved was the timing of the animation because our video only lasted 40 seconds and I things it wasn’t enough but this was because we took too much time to plan our animation and I thing this is something we will definitely have to improve for our next project. And also improving the camera angle, because the character wasn't all the time in the frame. Our best strength was working, as a group there wasn’t a lot of arguing which was good. But for our first try at claymation I think it was a good outcome.